You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.

To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.

Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they did very early, early on when they were trying to, you know, get Germany into the war, whether it be anti-Semitic movies like "Jud Suss," or "The Eternal Jew," or movies made against the Polish to help, you know, create sympathy for them to invade Poland. You know, there'd be movies where there would be some German girl living in Poland who's raped by the Polish or something.